No records in the last 30 days.
340
recorded earthquakes
M6.0
largest
1922–2026
record span
2.08
mean magnitude
113
epicentre inside the border
By year
Stacked by magnitude; one column per year.
M<3M3–4M4–5M5+
Read this chart carefully. Rising columns do not mean earthquakes are becoming more frequent. The monitoring network improved over time: the smallest detectable earthquake in Türkiye was about M5.0 in 1966 and is M1.5 today. Earlier years look quiet because small events were not heard, not because they did not happen.
Largest earthquakes
Inclusion rule: the radius widens with magnitude (15 km up to M4, 150 km at M7 and above). This is not a measure of felt shaking or intensity.
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.0 | 15.05.1927 02:47 | 15 km | 76 km |
| 6.0 | 24.03.1922 12:22 | 15 km | 97 km |
| 5.6 | 15.05.1927 03:12 | 15 km | 56 km |
| 5.5 | 12.07.1991 10:42 | 8.1 km | 95 km |
| 5.5 | 03.11.2010 00:56 | 10.9 km | 102 km |
| 5.5 | 29.09.1998 22:14 | 18.2 km | 58 km |
| 5.5 | 02.12.1991 08:49 | 13.9 km | 107 km |
| 5.4 | 30.04.1999 03:30 | 14.8 km | 55 km |
| 5.3 | 14.07.1949 11:09 | 15 km | 71 km |
| 5.1 | 19.07.1991 01:27 | 10.4 km | 87 km |
| 4.8 | 22.03.2006 11:26 | 9.2 km | 70 km |
| 4.7 | 02.08.1991 00:51 | 25.9 km | 86 km |
| 4.5 | 26.09.1996 20:29 | 10 km | 78 km |
| 4.4 | 08.03.2015 20:47 | 5.5 km | 74 km |
| 4.3 | 27.03.2016 17:50 | 10 km | 76 km |
Latest earthquakes
| Magnitude | Date | Depth | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2.3 | 01.05.2026 07:07 | 6 km | 62 km |
| 2.4 | 25.07.2025 23:42 | 2 km | 58 km |
| 2.8 | 30.06.2025 05:48 | 3 km | 6 km |
| 2.9 | 06.06.2025 23:20 | 7 km | 58 km |
| 2.7 | 07.03.2025 00:34 | 4 km | 67 km |
| 3.8 | 11.07.2024 12:40 | 9 km | 34 km |
| 2.3 | 06.01.2024 19:30 | 6 km | 60 km |
| 2.5 | 18.08.2023 20:47 | 7 km | 62 km |
| 2.1 | 13.09.2022 01:53 | 1 km | 12 km |
| 3.2 | 08.06.2022 22:46 | 4 km | 26 km |
| 3.8 | 30.10.2021 21:32 | 13 km | 32 km |
| 2.6 | 30.10.2021 06:13 | 2 km | 33 km |
| 3.0 | 10.05.2021 10:35 | 10 km | 44 km |
| 2.6 | 30.04.2019 14:45 | 4 km | 70 km |
| 2.9 | 12.04.2019 12:42 | 393 km | 47 km |
| 2.7 | 14.03.2019 03:01 | 3 km | 72 km |
| 2.6 | 06.01.2019 08:42 | 5 km | 52 km |
| 2.4 | 23.12.2018 07:37 | 5 km | 72 km |
| 4.3 | 23.12.2018 06:33 | 6.2 km | 74 km |
| 2.2 | 27.07.2018 08:00 | 10 km | 61 km |
| 2.3 | 02.11.2017 01:31 | 1 km | 56 km |
| 3.8 | 09.08.2017 21:17 | 7 km | 57 km |
| 2.5 | 06.07.2017 08:08 | 4 km | 61 km |
| 3.0 | 20.05.2017 16:12 | 5 km | 51 km |
| 2.7 | 08.11.2016 03:28 | 358 km | 42 km |
| 4.3 | 27.03.2016 17:50 | 10 km | 76 km |
| 2.6 | 18.03.2016 02:17 | 2 km | 39 km |
| 4.4 | 08.03.2015 20:47 | 5.5 km | 74 km |
| 3.0 | 23.11.2014 10:10 | 2 km | 42 km |
| 2.3 | 13.10.2014 15:04 | 3 km | 57 km |
| 2.6 | 18.09.2012 22:25 | 1 km | 52 km |
| 2.3 | 21.07.2012 09:16 | 1 km | 64 km |
| 2.7 | 05.07.2012 07:59 | 1 km | 64 km |
| 3.6 | 29.06.2012 23:15 | 1 km | 64 km |
| 2.7 | 23.06.2012 06:37 | 2 km | 60 km |
| 1.3 | 26.12.2011 15:18 | 0 km | 34 km |
| 1.1 | 09.12.2011 02:38 | 0 km | 59 km |
| 1.2 | 05.12.2011 13:38 | 0 km | 48 km |
| 1.5 | 25.11.2011 00:09 | 5.7 km | 62 km |
| 1.4 | 23.11.2011 16:00 | 0.2 km | 54 km |
| 1.8 | 19.11.2011 23:40 | 2 km | 63 km |
| 1.4 | 14.11.2011 13:34 | 0 km | 43 km |
| 1.6 | 10.11.2011 10:23 | 8.3 km | 9 km |
| 1.7 | 09.11.2011 14:32 | 0 km | 66 km |
| 1.9 | 30.10.2011 23:48 | 5 km | 50 km |
| 1.9 | 23.10.2011 06:19 | 2 km | 60 km |
| 1.2 | 09.10.2011 19:36 | 0 km | 68 km |
| 1.6 | 28.09.2011 09:45 | 0 km | 61 km |
| 1.6 | 24.09.2011 08:20 | 10 km | 50 km |
| 1.4 | 15.09.2011 12:14 | 0 km | 55 km |
| 1.3 | 08.09.2011 16:51 | 3.1 km | 60 km |
| 2.3 | 05.09.2011 13:19 | 0 km | 55 km |
| 1.3 | 28.07.2011 07:52 | 0 km | 62 km |
| 1.8 | 19.07.2011 15:30 | 0 km | 64 km |
| 1.5 | 18.07.2011 08:36 | 0 km | 27 km |
| 1.4 | 16.07.2011 00:37 | 5.3 km | 24 km |
| 1.6 | 13.07.2011 23:51 | 4.4 km | 26 km |
| 1.2 | 13.07.2011 23:25 | 0 km | 26 km |
| 1.6 | 13.07.2011 20:06 | 2.7 km | 25 km |
| 1.2 | 12.07.2011 04:36 | 0 km | 29 km |
Method and sources
- What this page counts
- An earthquake appears here when its epicentre is within a magnitude-dependent distance of this place's border: 15 km up to M4, 30 km to M5, 60 km to M6, 100 km to M7, and 150 km at M7 and above. The rule exists because a large earthquake concerns neighbouring provinces too — the 17 August 1999 epicentre was in the Gulf of İzmit, on no province's land at all.
- Location precision
- Epicentre uncertainty is typically 1–10 km, and larger for older records. That is why this site breaks data down to districts but not to neighbourhoods or villages — the data does not support that distinction.
- Magnitude scales
- The catalogues use more than twelve magnitude scales (Mw, ML, mb, Md…) and they are not equivalent. Values are shown on the scale the source reported; they are not converted.
- Deduplication
- The same earthquake is published by several catalogues. Records within 20 seconds and 100 km whose magnitudes differ by no more than 1.2 are treated as one event; the primary record is chosen by catalogue priority.
- Updates
- Recent earthquakes are fetched from four sources every five minutes. The historical archive is rebuilt infrequently.
- Sources
- USGS ComCat · ISC Bulletin · AFAD · Kandilli / KOERI · EMSC/CSEM
- Reporting an error
- If you spot a wrong record, write to us; we verify against the source and correct it.